Re: [B2-devel] Preventing double-mounts

[Dave V. <va...@us...>]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Charles Srstka
<bas...@ch...> wrote:
> They’re both equivalent; I believe that O_EXLOCK uses the advisory locks
> under the hood.

I believe you're right.

> I would think that images becoming mounted while SheepShaver is running
> would be less of a concern on other platforms which can’t normally mount Mac
> volumes, though.

Well, Linux can loop-mount HFS disk images, but locking probably won't
help with that. What flock() gains us on non-Mac platforms is
preventing multiple instances of B2/SS from mounting the same image.

-V